After attacks on The New York Times and Twitter, the Syrian Electronic Army -- a group of hackers in Syria who support President Bashar al-Assad -- hijacked the marines.com domain and redirected it to a defaced page they created. The site is used as a recruiting page for the USMC, whose primary domain is marines.mil.

This is a message written by your brothers in the Syrian Army, who have been fighting al-Qaida for the last 3 years. We understand your patriotism and love for your country so please understand our love for ours. Obama is a traitor who wants to put your lives in danger to rescue al- Qaida insurgents.

Marines, please take a look at what your comrades think about Obama's alliance with al-Qaida against Syria. Your officer in charge probably has no qualms about sending you to die against soldiers just like you, fighting a vile common enemy. The Syrian army should be your ally not your enemy.

Refuse your orders and concentrate on the real reason every soldier joins their military, to defend their homeland. You're more than welcome to fight alongside our army rather than against it.

Your brothers, the Syrian army soldiers. A message delivered by the SEA.

The domain remained hijacked for several hours early Monday morning with users redirected to the replacement page. By 9 am, though, the USMC had regained control of their domain, stomping out the SEA's efforts.

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The SEA -- who uses hacker group Anonymous's slogan "expect us" -- has been repeatedly attacking the webpages of governments and media outlets in the U.S. and Europe who have criticized the President al-Assad's regime in recent months. A twitter statement posted on the SEA's official account brags "Syrian electronic army penetrates [USMC] site [translated]."

The U.S. has been preparing for a potential missile strike on Syria ever since President Barack Obama (D) accused Syria's Bashar al-Assad of using deadly nerve gas missile attacks on rebel strongholds in the cities of Jobar, Zamalka, 'Ain Tirma, and Hazzah, killing over a thousand people and injuring thousands more.

While President Obama has condemned the attacks, he has opted to wait for the UN to complete its analysis of samples gathered from the attack sites and to get Congressional approval before carrying out any military action. On Sunday various Syrian officials and state media sources blasted President Obama's decision as "hesitant and confused" and described his actions as "[a] historic American retreat".

quote: Al-Qaeda being gassed to death is no different than fumigating a house for an insect infestation. It's not an atrocity, it's a cleansing.

After all these years of war, how can our President seriously intervene, FOR our common enemy, just because he doesn't like the methods used? It's insanity! How pro-terrorist can you get!?

If one cent, one soldier, is wasted on protecting these "rebels", Obama needs to be impeached.

That's not the point, in fact this has nothing to do with protecting al-Qaeda militants from chemical attacks.

Obama, like Churchill and - gasp! - Hitler, isn't fond of chemical warfare. It's like Iran threatening to use nukes against Israel. Why haven't Tehran done it already? Because it opens a whole can of worms and they will lose so much more than they can possibly gain i.e. wipe Israelis out of the Mideast.

Punishing Syria for using chemical agents against its own people is better than the other alternative: legitimize chemical warfare. Heck, an all-out nuclear war is still more preferable than chemicals, because a fast death is easier on the human soul than slowly dying under excruciating agony.

quote: do you people honestly think EVERY Conservative viewpoint from EVERY person just automatically comes from Fox News?

Nope, but you can trace the origin/involvement of these viewpoints to them.

quote: Punishing Syria for using chemical agents against its own people is better than the other alternative: legitimize chemical warfare.

You're talking about a President who actively campaigned against NOT trying to police the world like his arch nemesis George Bush.

How are chemical weapons being "legitimized" if the United States doesn't go arbitrarily invade Syria? Is that our job now? Someone else can deal with Syria, someone who has an actual stake in this fight. Syria is NOT a threat to anyone militarily. This problem doesn't require the most powerful military on Earth to solve.

So far Obama is indicating he'll act on his own, without consulting Congress as the Constitution demands. If he does that, if he ignores the Constitution and Congress, if he decides to behave more like a military dictator than a President with limited powers, then Congress should move immediately to impeach him. As he would have done this not once, but twice. Remember Libya?

And if you think THAT is just "Fox News" talk, you've lost your mind.

quote: Heck, an all-out nuclear war is still more preferable than chemicals, because a fast death is easier on the human soul than slowly dying under excruciating agony.

It's official: you're a dumbass. Like 20 times more people die or have life-long complications due to fallout than the actual nuclear blast. The effects can persist for decades! But oh yeah, chemical weapons are way worst. Are you some kind of retard?

I actually think we need to stay out of this and let them wipe each other out, but:

quote: So far Obama is indicating he'll act on his own, without consulting Congress as the Constitution demands. If he does that, if he ignores the Constitution and Congress, if he decides to behave more like a military dictator than a President with limited powers, then Congress should move immediately to impeach him. As he would have done this not once, but twice. Remember Libya?

Not sure where you are getting that, as he has asked congress to act. He has not indicated (that I have seen) that he will ignore them if they say no. At this point, he is asking for permission.